I had the good luck to view some great art in private collections. My interior photography doesn’t do justice - but I hope it gives some idea of the brilliance.
If you are interested in collecting art like this, send me email and I can pass word to the owners.
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Words fail - but I’ve tried. In a few days I’ll post some art from private collections.
Templo Mayor
Templo Mayor - The balloon is the priest talking - you can tell he’s saying something important!
Templo Mayor - This guy is being dismembered. The balloon is him talking - probably saying “Oh shit!”
Teotihuacan - He’s painting with pigment from worms in agave.
Teotihuacan - The Pyramid of the Moon, from the Pyramid of the Sun.
Teotihuacan - Caizada de los Muertos.
Teotihuacan - You can see they were building mountains!
Museo Nacional de Antropologia - A pre-Columbian vendor?
Museo Nacional de Antropologia - They loved their amphibians.
Museo Nacional de Antropologia - Chac-mool, everybody’s favorite god.
Museo Nacional de Antropologia - They loved their bunnies.
Museo Nacional de Antropologia - Can you believe this?
Museo Nacional de Antropologia - Tell me this isn’t a mudra.
Museo Nacional de Antropologia - A half lotus?
Museo Nacional de Antropologia - These guys had to be in communication with South Asia.
Glorious huichol.
Every corner of Mexico City shows these beauties.
The sierra to the south.
Taxco - Santa Prisca.
Taxco - Santa Prisca.
Taxco - Santa Prisca.
Museo Dolores Olmeda Patino - Xoloxcuintle in downward dog - and check out that gorgeous Mohawk on the pup!
Museo Dolores Olmeda Patino - He insisted on being photographed.
Museo Dolores Olmeda Patino - Earth has such beauty.
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From the project statement:
The aim of climateprediction.net is to investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times (a ‘large ensemble’) we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic. This will allow us to improve our understanding of how sensitive our models are to small changes and also to things like changes in carbon dioxide and the sulphur cycle. This will allow us to explore how climate may change in the next century under a wide range of different scenarios. In the past estimates of climate change have had to be made using one or, at best, a very small ensemble (tens rather than thousands!) of model runs. By using your computers, we will be able to improve our understanding of, and confidence in, climate change predictions more than would ever be possible using the supercomputers currently available to scientists.
The program is designed to use only your spare processing power, and thus not to affect your other operations.
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